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as jim mentioned, there are more than 24 findings and recommendations. we can't cover all of those. we hope you will take the entire report, study it through, and look at each of those recommendations. why is this report important? it is important because we as a nation have to get this right. i look back in history durling the time to -- during the time to world war ii that we intered some japanese americans. at the time it seemed like the right and proper thing to do. in the right of history, it was an error. so today this report will hopefully put into focus some of the actions taken in some of the post 9/11 environment. there are key questions we want to answer this morning. one, did the treatment rise to torture? secondly, how did it happen? what can we learn from this to make better decisions in the future? on the first question, we found u.s. personnel in many instances used ininterrogation techniques on detainees that constitutional torture. military personnel conducted cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. both categories of actions violate u.s. laws and international tr
as jim mentioned, there are more than 24 findings and recommendations. we can't cover all of those. we hope you will take the entire report, study it through, and look at each of those recommendations. why is this report important? it is important because we as a nation have to get this right. i look back in history durling the time to -- during the time to world war ii that we intered some japanese americans. at the time it seemed like the right and proper thing to do. in the right of history,...
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jim, thank you. thank you for that wonderful and not totally deserved introduction but i will accept i it. jim zigler is one of the finest person i have known in either party. he set the gold standard for everybody else to follow and has been doing it for the best interest of the senate, not in a partisan way, but what was best for the senate. lisa, it is great to see you. we get a chance to get caught up in the connections to vermont, but most people don't realize the name like patrick leahy, my mother is first generation italian american and we compare where some of our relatives are from. and human rights happen to board members who made all of this possible. i think what you are doing is so important. in -- i have admired lawyers and people before that and research and advocaticacy has been impor in the legislation i have passed. let me talk about a few topics. and it is encouraging you to don't stop. keep doing what where you are doing. it may seem obvious that this is central purposes of it, bu
jim, thank you. thank you for that wonderful and not totally deserved introduction but i will accept i it. jim zigler is one of the finest person i have known in either party. he set the gold standard for everybody else to follow and has been doing it for the best interest of the senate, not in a partisan way, but what was best for the senate. lisa, it is great to see you. we get a chance to get caught up in the connections to vermont, but most people don't realize the name like patrick leahy,...
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there are disputes which jim will explain in detail, but no differences over iran. pakistan and iran's relation has always been cordial and friend friendly. with full military and financial support for pakistan during its wars with india, and in fact you're on was the first country to recognize pakistan in 1947 and pakistan was created. they have been very close and very friendly with full support in pakistan against india. one major reason was the fact that india and pakistan beyond two different camps on socialism and pakistan is a us ally and air on -- iran was a close ally of the united states in the region. so, after 1979's revolution, iran -- every day friendships still continued and the exporting of islamic ideas and revolution that air iran band and was promoting does not apply to pakistan for several important reasons i believe. one is the shiite community are very integrated into the pakistan society. if you can go back to the founder of pakistan who was a shiite. or the other reason includes the fact that pakistan shiite community is very divided, but mor
there are disputes which jim will explain in detail, but no differences over iran. pakistan and iran's relation has always been cordial and friend friendly. with full military and financial support for pakistan during its wars with india, and in fact you're on was the first country to recognize pakistan in 1947 and pakistan was created. they have been very close and very friendly with full support in pakistan against india. one major reason was the fact that india and pakistan beyond two...
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jim from michigan on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i have heard so much lately about flat tax. it seems to me that that would be simplified, more revenue coming in. what are the pros and cons? host: eric toder? guest: ok, so. when people say flat tax, they had different things in mind. there is a plan called flat tax which is not an income tax. it is a form of a value added tax. i can explain that, but just to summarize. what would happen under that proposal, given today that we have a progressive tax system. that is people with a higher , incomes pay a higher share of their income in tax. it is progressive when you take into account tax breaks and preferences. if you moved to a flat rate to raise the same amount of revenue, you would have a substantial tax increase on the lower and middle income groups. and a cut on the top income groups. that is one of the major issues with that. the other thing is, you get into the question of not just a flat rate, a question of what the base is and what you include. the proposal that was out there
jim from michigan on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i have heard so much lately about flat tax. it seems to me that that would be simplified, more revenue coming in. what are the pros and cons? host: eric toder? guest: ok, so. when people say flat tax, they had different things in mind. there is a plan called flat tax which is not an income tax. it is a form of a value added tax. i can explain that, but just to summarize. what would happen under that proposal, given today that...
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. >> thank you, jim, and thank you for your leadership on the task force, and i want to express my thanks to the constitution project, but also to all of my fellow task force members, what they brought to the table in terms of experience, wisdom, public service, really made a difference in the development of this project and important eport. there's more than 24 findings and recommendations. we can't cover all of those this morning, but we do want to hit some of the highlights. we hope you'll take the entire report, study it through, and look at each of those recommendations. why is this report important? it's important because we as a nation have to get this right. i look back in history to the time during world war ii that we interned some japanese-americans. at the time it seemed like the sandrite proper thing to do. but in the light of history, it was an error. and so today this report will hopefully put into focus some of the actions taken in the post-9/11 environment. there's some key questions we wanted to address this morning. one is the treatment of suspected terrorists in u.s. c
. >> thank you, jim, and thank you for your leadership on the task force, and i want to express my thanks to the constitution project, but also to all of my fellow task force members, what they brought to the table in terms of experience, wisdom, public service, really made a difference in the development of this project and important eport. there's more than 24 findings and recommendations. we can't cover all of those this morning, but we do want to hit some of the highlights. we hope...
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i will just stop right there. >> thank you, jim. patrick. >> the editor of the most paper in iran is a noted hardliner and close commandants of the supreme leader, the ayatollah. these firebreathing editorials and i do not always agree with him but his editorial the other day about this deal i thought had considerable wisdom. he described this as a small taking small steps that the p5 plus one are taking. if we look at the text and not at the statements made about the deal, it is quite a small deal. for instance, much of the reporting about this, they have committed not to impose new sanctions on iran -- iran. that is not what the text says. impose new sanctions on iran? wrong. speakinge two people said, we have committed from imposing new nuclear related sanctions. that does not stop us from implementing existing sanctions which of course we will do. nor will we impose new sanctions to sponsor its abysmal human rights record. there'slast point, nothing in this agreement that would prevent the united states from imposing new sanctio
i will just stop right there. >> thank you, jim. patrick. >> the editor of the most paper in iran is a noted hardliner and close commandants of the supreme leader, the ayatollah. these firebreathing editorials and i do not always agree with him but his editorial the other day about this deal i thought had considerable wisdom. he described this as a small taking small steps that the p5 plus one are taking. if we look at the text and not at the statements made about the deal, it is...
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right now we'll start with jim phillips. >> thanks, steve. he interim nuclear agreement with iran that was announced last weekend has been called but it agreement, remains to be seen whether ate istorically bad agreement that fails to halt iran's strive for nuclear weapon or just a bad tough negotiations that will need much more firmer iran to reach and salvage an acceptable and agreement. i think the final answer won't be known for at least six onths, but i'm afraid it's results rtain that the will be closer to the former than the latter. it should be noted that this is not the first time that iran has reached so-called historic nuclear on its program. britain, france and germany a historic had 2003 ent with iran with when they agreed to suspend activities unless those negotiations went nowhere eventually dropped the facade of negotiations two years later when it was in its do so.t to the latest flawed agreement is agreement first step but it's clearly more of a step oward a nuclear aran than a realistic step to reverse the nuclear progress.
right now we'll start with jim phillips. >> thanks, steve. he interim nuclear agreement with iran that was announced last weekend has been called but it agreement, remains to be seen whether ate istorically bad agreement that fails to halt iran's strive for nuclear weapon or just a bad tough negotiations that will need much more firmer iran to reach and salvage an acceptable and agreement. i think the final answer won't be known for at least six onths, but i'm afraid it's results rtain...
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that's very important be, we -- if you see a lot of analysis, people say there's no trust -- hello, jim. half half that we don't have trust russia and the united states, there is no trust. sometimes i feel i'm coming from the cold war, that during the cold war we had more trust than we have today for different reasons. this is not the subject of discussion of today's meeting. but this is true. because we cannot sit and take decisions together on many issues. and during the major agreements in disarmament area-- how to create trust by statement, impossible. trust you create only working together. this way if we succeed to work together with positive results in syria on chemical issue completely, i think that it will be very step forward in our bilateral relations to create this atmosphere of trust. not because the cites will want to -- the united states want to give gifts to russia, because for different reasons or maybe two common reasons we have to eliminate chemical weapons in syria. if we can do positively this issue, i think that also together we can leave the international process
that's very important be, we -- if you see a lot of analysis, people say there's no trust -- hello, jim. half half that we don't have trust russia and the united states, there is no trust. sometimes i feel i'm coming from the cold war, that during the cold war we had more trust than we have today for different reasons. this is not the subject of discussion of today's meeting. but this is true. because we cannot sit and take decisions together on many issues. and during the major agreements in...
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jim used a number of statistics. one that struck me is i have the right to a 52% of the afghan population thought the country is going on in the right direction. my question to each of you, what is your view? is the country going in the right direction and are you optimistic or pessimistic as we look forward for the next two years and after 2014? >> if you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there. the country is going in the right direction compared to where we started certainly. people feel more confident about the way their life is conducted. also as i mentioned, there has to be a bit of a relation [indiscernible] in the region. >> i also agree and the statistics were new to me. it is heartening that 52% of people in afghanistan feel the country is going in the right direction. i do not know the figures for pakistan. one other thing. some of the preoccupations in terms of thinking and concerns which the investor mentioned, what is the future of the country? where does it stand with the internat
jim used a number of statistics. one that struck me is i have the right to a 52% of the afghan population thought the country is going on in the right direction. my question to each of you, what is your view? is the country going in the right direction and are you optimistic or pessimistic as we look forward for the next two years and after 2014? >> if you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there. the country is going in the right direction compared to where we...
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other colleagues from the white house years in addition to elaine and leon include gordon adams and jim colonberger, lee an bracket, rob shapiro, mike, paul weinstein, ellen oakes and others. i also want to acknowledge josh gotbaum, the u.s. pension benefit guarantee corporation head. and so now to elaine. [laughter] i have known elaine shula caymark for 20 years, almost exactly 20 years, and i want to acknowledge her husband tino who was a tremendous public servant running the xm bank, and their daughter-in-law, christy, who is here, and elaine's sister, joanne shula. but elaine is, by all odds, one of the most talented people that i've ever worked with. and whether it's in the sphere of governance or in politics, she is just truly outstanding, and everybody who's worked with her knows that. and to the powers that be here in brookings, congratulations in wooing her away from being at harvard and establishing this important center. .. i'm really happy to be here. i'm glad you picked a slow news day to launch this new center. the most important news of the day other than this launch is n
other colleagues from the white house years in addition to elaine and leon include gordon adams and jim colonberger, lee an bracket, rob shapiro, mike, paul weinstein, ellen oakes and others. i also want to acknowledge josh gotbaum, the u.s. pension benefit guarantee corporation head. and so now to elaine. [laughter] i have known elaine shula caymark for 20 years, almost exactly 20 years, and i want to acknowledge her husband tino who was a tremendous public servant running the xm bank, and...
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i had the privilege of being the leader with jim baker of the american delegation. when dick showed up there. his wife. there were good friends. so we had a chance to see him. he is amazing to me and he went. i said, you are looking great. three very hard years, our replacement and someone. he is looking great, feeling great. catch up with these people. >> host: what about secretary rumsfeld? >> guest: i don't see a lot of them, but i am in touch with him. he has a new book coming out. i wrote a little blurb for it. it is unknown unknowns and no knowns and that stuff. interesting book. >> host: what was your relationship to margaret thatcher? >> guest: i had a really good relationship with marker. often we argued. she is a pretty fierce argue were. when she does not like something people to say, oh, yes, margaret. we would go at it. the underlying way of thinking about things was similar, so a lot was constructed by the reagan-thatcher relationship, and i was glad to be a part of it. i was glad to get to her funeral because i had been close to her book before i was
i had the privilege of being the leader with jim baker of the american delegation. when dick showed up there. his wife. there were good friends. so we had a chance to see him. he is amazing to me and he went. i said, you are looking great. three very hard years, our replacement and someone. he is looking great, feeling great. catch up with these people. >> host: what about secretary rumsfeld? >> guest: i don't see a lot of them, but i am in touch with him. he has a new book coming...
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these questions are more directed to jim and judge carr. how feasible is it for judges to with an eyens toward declassification or reduction later? just assuming we're talking about prospectively as opposed to retrospectively. is this an easy matter, is a complicated, can it be done? it was mike syrians, i do not know about the other judges with whom i served or judges today -- writing an opinion, as we normally understand it, was a very unusual event. with an ordinary search warrant you do not write an opinion you look at it, if there is probable cause you issue it as a title iii order. and pfizer order you issue it. >> in the unusual circumstances -- >> what's again, -- once again, when a judge felt the need to write an opinion -- and that is often triggered by a notice from the government, if they notice something is going on that is unusual, and by the work of the legal advisers. they will work on the issues. ofon't remember the number opinions. maybe several pages i wrote, but it was a handful. part of it is thinking about transparency
these questions are more directed to jim and judge carr. how feasible is it for judges to with an eyens toward declassification or reduction later? just assuming we're talking about prospectively as opposed to retrospectively. is this an easy matter, is a complicated, can it be done? it was mike syrians, i do not know about the other judges with whom i served or judges today -- writing an opinion, as we normally understand it, was a very unusual event. with an ordinary search warrant you do not...
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children and their grandchildren and the generations that followed continued their struggle, through the jim crow years and the years of the civil rights movement, inspired by dr. king's eloquence, today we have an african-american in that big white house on pennsylvania avenue. and they are all change agents. we are a nation of change agents. and that's why i am optimistic about our future. but, i still have a continuing ever present fear. i fear that big white building with the dome on it at the far end of pennsylvania avenue. we still have january 15 and february 7. be afraid, america. be afraid. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you. we have a lot of questions on a lot of topics. we will try to cover a little ground in a bunch of areas. this questionnaire asks -- you talked about the work yet to be done in terms of gay marriage being legal in all states. what do you see as the next civil rights fight on the horizon after gay marriage? >> we still have a long ways to go. as long as there are young people bullied and made to feel very inferior, as long as young
children and their grandchildren and the generations that followed continued their struggle, through the jim crow years and the years of the civil rights movement, inspired by dr. king's eloquence, today we have an african-american in that big white house on pennsylvania avenue. and they are all change agents. we are a nation of change agents. and that's why i am optimistic about our future. but, i still have a continuing ever present fear. i fear that big white building with the dome on it at...
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we are going to start with my colleague here at here heritage, jim phillips, the middle eastern analyst. he's focused on middle east and international paragraph on its 1978. he is a former research fellow at the congressional research service. he was a consultant to the national security council, department of defense and the international republic institute and he is a member of the board of editors on the middle east quarterly. he will be followed by patrick who is the director for research and the director of the iran security initiative of the washington institute for near east policy, the largest u.s. think tank that focuses on the middle east. he has edited or written over 30 books and monographs and he speaks persian and farsi so he can read stuff the rest of us can't. he's also served as a senior economist at the dod national defense university, worked for the world bank international monetary fund and for 18 years was the senior editor of the middle east quarterly and is on the distinguished advisory panel at the department of energy national laboratory which is somewhat troubl
we are going to start with my colleague here at here heritage, jim phillips, the middle eastern analyst. he's focused on middle east and international paragraph on its 1978. he is a former research fellow at the congressional research service. he was a consultant to the national security council, department of defense and the international republic institute and he is a member of the board of editors on the middle east quarterly. he will be followed by patrick who is the director for research...
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daddy jim made sure his family walked on the sidewalks. when he was challenged about the cost of food, his bill, medgar and charles there in the store with him, and he said no, that's not it. and this group of men descended upon him, and i am told that he said to his sons go outside where it's safe. daddy jim proceeds to take a bottle from some place, crack it across the counter, and to tell those men who were challenging him, his sons, and his family come on, come on. backed out of the door, and they went home. but that was the kind of example of manhood, of strength , of devotion to family that medgar grew up in. i grew up in another kind of home, one where there were three females in it. my aunt, my grandmother, and myself. we didn't argue because my grandmother had the last word each and every time. so it was peaceful there. they were school teachers. and their motto was don't rock the boat. so here we have these two people coming together, one that says i can't do anything beyond what society has set for me, and the other saying you a
daddy jim made sure his family walked on the sidewalks. when he was challenged about the cost of food, his bill, medgar and charles there in the store with him, and he said no, that's not it. and this group of men descended upon him, and i am told that he said to his sons go outside where it's safe. daddy jim proceeds to take a bottle from some place, crack it across the counter, and to tell those men who were challenging him, his sons, and his family come on, come on. backed out of the door,...
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[applause] it for senator jim demint. [cheers and applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] senator dement, let me tell you that you were the inspiration for my son. you paves the way for him. and he has it fulfilled. thank you. while i stand here before all of you, i know from personal experience what it is to feel the heavy weight of a centralized,taking away my freem of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, confiscating private property, shutting down businesses, attacking everyone that had anything, small business or big business. putting preachers in prison. i will tell you that in the middle of all of that they impose a socialized medicine system in cuba. they had a premier medical system. the university was renowned worldwide for its quality of medical construction.
[applause] it for senator jim demint. [cheers and applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] senator dement, let me tell you that you were the inspiration for my son. you paves the way for him. and he has it fulfilled. thank you. while i stand here before all of you, i know from personal experience what it is to feel the heavy weight of a centralized,taking away my freem of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of...
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congressman, jim marshall, president, u.s. ip, mr. stephen hadley, distinguished guests, amazing gentleman, i am honored to speak at this prestigious for him -- four room -- forum on peace and regional development. we appreciate usip's noble mission of promoting peace and understanding among nations. ladies and gentlemen, i have come here as the elected leader of pakistan, a land of ancient civilizations and rich cultural traditions, but still young and aspiring to be modern, moderate, and progressive. 180 million enterprising, hard- working people, dreaming of a better model in a rapidly changing world. they yearn for peace, security, and well-being that have eluded them for the past many decades. it is their hopes and aspirations i have come here to voice before this learned gathering. ladies and gentlemen, this has been a momentous year in our history. not only have we had a free, fair, and transparent general election, but a transfer of power from one elected government to another. an elected president succeeded another elected pr
congressman, jim marshall, president, u.s. ip, mr. stephen hadley, distinguished guests, amazing gentleman, i am honored to speak at this prestigious for him -- four room -- forum on peace and regional development. we appreciate usip's noble mission of promoting peace and understanding among nations. ladies and gentlemen, i have come here as the elected leader of pakistan, a land of ancient civilizations and rich cultural traditions, but still young and aspiring to be modern, moderate, and...
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i thank you, jim mcgovern, all of you. this is a fight you are making for every person in america, to live in a country of values. include ourat faith. our faith tells us that to minister to the needs of god's creation is an act of worship. to ignore those needs, as this bill does, is to dishonor the god who made us. this is very wrong. even in this place, this crosses a threshold that we should never go past. should never go past. this is totally out of the question. [applause] i am a mom. one of the reasons why i am involved in politics is i see it as an extension of my role as a mother of five kids. now many grandchildren, god bless them. but what drove me to this was that i saw all of my kids -- all my kids had, all the opportunity, the love, the rest of it. i thought, the best thing we can all do is to make sure our children, for their own welfare, grow up in a country where all of america's children were treated with respect as we meet their needs. that is just not happening here today. i call upon our friends in the
i thank you, jim mcgovern, all of you. this is a fight you are making for every person in america, to live in a country of values. include ourat faith. our faith tells us that to minister to the needs of god's creation is an act of worship. to ignore those needs, as this bill does, is to dishonor the god who made us. this is very wrong. even in this place, this crosses a threshold that we should never go past. should never go past. this is totally out of the question. [applause] i am a mom. one...
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where is jim mueller? thank you for leading our pledge, but thank you for your service in a rock -- iraq. [applause] our former state senator staci appel is with us. i have lost eye contact with staci. [applause] i want to recognize and honor all of our democratic state legislature. mark smith. mark if you're somewhere. [applause] i want to especially thank our senate leader, mike grunts doll mike for doing the last session. where is he? thank you. [applause] those of us who call iowa home, those of us who care about keeping the state on a progressive course, nothing is more important than winning back the iowa house, getting more democrats in the senate and winning back the governorship next year for the state of iowa. andplause] let's salute our fighting second district on brisbane -- cumbersome and -- congressman. where is dave? [applause] i want someone to come up here. bruce brady. [applause] folks, you have been so kind and generous to me in all the years i have represented you both in the house and
where is jim mueller? thank you for leading our pledge, but thank you for your service in a rock -- iraq. [applause] our former state senator staci appel is with us. i have lost eye contact with staci. [applause] i want to recognize and honor all of our democratic state legislature. mark smith. mark if you're somewhere. [applause] i want to especially thank our senate leader, mike grunts doll mike for doing the last session. where is he? thank you. [applause] those of us who call iowa home,...
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russia although there russian fulbright students and then others who were parts of exchange including jim billington's long and successful exchange program which reaches all over russian brings russians here and americans to russia conquered they'll organize their own alumni organization so things took off and they have been moving. none of it has been perfect. i think these have been large measure been either supported or carried out through ngos. we have seen the recent russian cracked down on ngos and the stigmatization of ngos as foreign agents as a real impediment i thing to being able to carry this forward. i don't think it represents cooperation. i hope it represents only a kind of short essays in u.s.-russian relationships and i hope we will find a way to move ahead because i think that it is, as you pointed out from your experience , that it is those kinds of human relationships and something i mentioned earlier in a response to a question as being very important. >> just a brief answer. >> you see with the americans do. >> i think there is a lot of potential for these sorts of e
russia although there russian fulbright students and then others who were parts of exchange including jim billington's long and successful exchange program which reaches all over russian brings russians here and americans to russia conquered they'll organize their own alumni organization so things took off and they have been moving. none of it has been perfect. i think these have been large measure been either supported or carried out through ngos. we have seen the recent russian cracked down...
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jim baker said he gave america a bad name. secretary gates told president bush that -- and advised him to it down. it cost usnard said the moral high ground. the former chairman of the joint chiefs says guantÁnamo has been a recruiting symbol for our enemies. powell, said he would close if not tomorrow but this afternoon. about theone thinks initial benefits of detaining prisoners at guantÁnamo, there is a growing bipartisan consensus that we no longer need it. today's hearing catalog the reasons why it is imperative to transform this consensus into action. we heard about the astronomical costs at guantanamo at a time of furloughs. eaton reminded us that in and of combat operations will require a change. lieutenant friday told us how guantÁnamo has warped our system of justice. in many ways, the struggle with witheda is a war ideals. sometimes when we lose our way, outsiders who admire our values can remind us of who we are and what we stand for. some family members of detainees have written letters to you in advance of thi
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jim marshall for his speech. i also want to give my thanks to ambassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to the u.s. ip my greetings and gratitude for their words. -- because of the development of the mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. we are here in a strategic important institute. i want to thank you for allowing me to be here. i want to discuss the relationship between iraq and the united states. we cooperated with our partners, and fight terrorist. this allows us to win over terrorist in iraq. all of the people of iraq were victims of the terrorist attacks led by al qaeda and the remnants of the regime in iraq. we are starting a new round of reconstruction after defeating al qaeda, who at some point stop stopped explosive in our resources. at some point, life came back to iraq. the economy started recovering. the construction developed. the security and economic level, and the political level, despite a diss balanc
jim marshall for his speech. i also want to give my thanks to ambassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to the u.s. ip my greetings and gratitude for their words. -- because of the development of the mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. we are here in a strategic important institute. i want to thank you for allowing me to be here. i want to discuss the relationship between iraq and the united states....
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tries to extract a consistent economic signal from all of the sports indicatog something my colleague, jim stock, member of the economic advisers and one of the country's leading macrotrician, and you see that in the next chart. the blue line is an index that combines all eight variables into a consistent measure of the economy. once you see it fell sharply in the first 12 days of october, and similar size, not as sharp falls, the last time we did the debt limit brinksmanship, and the eurozone crisis in 2012, and this translates into 0.25 percentage points from the fourth quarter growth rate, 120,000 fewer jobs than we otherwise would have had in the month of october, and i want to stress that's just based on the data we have through october 12th so as we look at object, numbers could change and could potentially get worse. this is how necessary and harmful the shutdown and brinksmanship was and should avoid it and add growth and jobs, not subtracts. there's a chart out for all of this for those of you who i know turn straight to the appendix of the report. as i said, it's a clear story. p
tries to extract a consistent economic signal from all of the sports indicatog something my colleague, jim stock, member of the economic advisers and one of the country's leading macrotrician, and you see that in the next chart. the blue line is an index that combines all eight variables into a consistent measure of the economy. once you see it fell sharply in the first 12 days of october, and similar size, not as sharp falls, the last time we did the debt limit brinksmanship, and the eurozone...
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he pushed it and put jim and sara brady on the flat form at the convention. it will be an issue in some cases. be when i see polls that 95% of the american people support, you know, an expanded background check system including 85% of gun owners and 75% of nra. i think we an opportunity to get things done. some people say gun control doesn't work. how do we know we haven't tried it. really, in this country all we've got are the background check system that does have the need a lot of fixing. more records in the system, more checks going forward. -- that's all we do in the country. from a federal perspective. that's not really trying gun control. that's a first step toward it. we haven't taken any other steps and in other countries it has been successful. there are things question do, i think fit this country too. i was pleased to see you using the fbi figure for the number of homicide per day that the 30ish a day is very sobering. i can assure you. one of the things that i'll make my questions brief and we can discuss them in a later date, maybe in indiana so
he pushed it and put jim and sara brady on the flat form at the convention. it will be an issue in some cases. be when i see polls that 95% of the american people support, you know, an expanded background check system including 85% of gun owners and 75% of nra. i think we an opportunity to get things done. some people say gun control doesn't work. how do we know we haven't tried it. really, in this country all we've got are the background check system that does have the need a lot of fixing....
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heritage action is leading a tourd obamacare town hall led by jim demint. the 9 stop tour begins next monday in fayetteville, arkansas. texas, isof expected to join the tour in dallas. some of our follow-up to a caller from west virginia, had a question about those who won't be able to afford it, and how they are going to get healthcare coverage. this is about the tax credit p arart of the 2010 health care law. the average health insurance tax credit for obama care said to be $2700. they write that americans to buy health insurance outside their jobs can expect a tax cut of nearly $2700 to help them obtain the coverage on the new state insurance marketplace according to an analysis i've been nine partisan kaiser -- the non partisan kaiser family foundation. 26 million low and moderate income people will be eligible for the tax credits to pay for individual coverage on their state marketplaces. the shopping malls created by the affordable care act. that is from the mcclatchy newspapers across the country. back to another caller, a caller from north carolina,
heritage action is leading a tourd obamacare town hall led by jim demint. the 9 stop tour begins next monday in fayetteville, arkansas. texas, isof expected to join the tour in dallas. some of our follow-up to a caller from west virginia, had a question about those who won't be able to afford it, and how they are going to get healthcare coverage. this is about the tax credit p arart of the 2010 health care law. the average health insurance tax credit for obama care said to be $2700. they write...
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joining us is jim webb. he wrote a piece recently in " th national interest" magazine, "congressional abdication." guest: i do not title the pieces i write. this was a shout over my shoulder as i left the senate. as i said in the piece, this was not a condemnation. it is an observation. every point at i made in the piece, i had made at some point either on the floor of the senate or in committee areas or through press statements, about the need for congress to have a stronger voice in terms of how the constitution is supposed to work with respect to the unilateral authorities that have been exercised by the president, particularly over the period since the iraq war. host: what happened leading up to the iraq war, as we mark the 10th anniversary, and how has it changed? guest: i know yo've had a lot of discussion about the vote that was taken to authorize the use of force in iraq. i was an early voice of warning that this was a strategic blunder, to have moved into iraq the way we did. i wrote a piece for "th
joining us is jim webb. he wrote a piece recently in " th national interest" magazine, "congressional abdication." guest: i do not title the pieces i write. this was a shout over my shoulder as i left the senate. as i said in the piece, this was not a condemnation. it is an observation. every point at i made in the piece, i had made at some point either on the floor of the senate or in committee areas or through press statements, about the need for congress to have a...
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and former senator jim webb talks about his article in national interest magazine on congress's role in approving military action. >> they hired a very expensive carriage. elizabeth monroe dressed herself in her best and went to the prison where madame lafayette was being held. she met with madame lafayette and basically made her case a public one. pub stories say the next day, she was released. it was not the next day. it was a couple of months. it kept her from going to the guillotine. it led to her release. >> in some ways, she has her own cause. she works with the washington female orphan asylum. that is somewhat modern, have in this cause that she was involved in. she does work politics in her parlor in such a way as to help win the presidency for her husband in her own way. >> our conversation with historians on elizabeth monroe and louisa catherine adams is now available on our web site. >> coming up on the next "washington journal," congressman tom price discusses the debate over the fiscal year 2014 budget. the new york democrat jerrold adler talks about a different budget p
and former senator jim webb talks about his article in national interest magazine on congress's role in approving military action. >> they hired a very expensive carriage. elizabeth monroe dressed herself in her best and went to the prison where madame lafayette was being held. she met with madame lafayette and basically made her case a public one. pub stories say the next day, she was released. it was not the next day. it was a couple of months. it kept her from going to the guillotine....
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and under defense policy, based on an internal review led by the current undersecretary of defense, jim miller. this restructuring will better balance the workload across the policy with the secretary of defense has sustained our emphasis on the asia pacific region in space and cybercapabilities and better integrating emerging threats of homeland defense efforts and strengthening our security cooperation efforts while eliminating some senior executive positions, specifically it eliminates the deputy secretary undersecretary position in the chief of staff phases out this on business and stability operations and realigns the portfolios of the five assistant secretaries. the plan also eliminates for for physicians for their support structures and realignment of the policies staffed structure. and second, that the cmo position and this includes the management. .. the acting under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness rebalance resources across the office of three assistant secretaries of defense on forest management in force readiness and military health care compensation and ret
and under defense policy, based on an internal review led by the current undersecretary of defense, jim miller. this restructuring will better balance the workload across the policy with the secretary of defense has sustained our emphasis on the asia pacific region in space and cybercapabilities and better integrating emerging threats of homeland defense efforts and strengthening our security cooperation efforts while eliminating some senior executive positions, specifically it eliminates the...
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extensive internal review of the organization led by the current undersecretary defense for policy jim miller. this restructuring a better balance workload across policies, assistant secretaries of defense, sustained our emphasis on the asia-pacific region, space and cyber capabilities and better integrate our focus on emerging threats with homeland defense efforts and strengthen our security cooperation efforts, while eliminating some senior executive positions, specifically the plan eliminates a deputy under sector of defense position and chief of staff phaseout the task force on business and stability operations and realigns the portfolios of the five assistant secretaries of defense for policy. the plan also eliminates or deputy assistant secretary of defense positions and their corresponding support structures who -- consolidation and realignment of the policy staff overall structure. second term we will strengthen the deputy chief management officer, the d.c. and the position by realigning the office of the director of administration and management and its components under the st
extensive internal review of the organization led by the current undersecretary defense for policy jim miller. this restructuring a better balance workload across policies, assistant secretaries of defense, sustained our emphasis on the asia-pacific region, space and cyber capabilities and better integrate our focus on emerging threats with homeland defense efforts and strengthen our security cooperation efforts, while eliminating some senior executive positions, specifically the plan...
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he's the one who put jim and sarah brady on the platform at the convention. it will be an issue in some races, controversial in some races but when i see polls, 95% american people support an expanded background checks system and couldn't 85% of gun owners and 75% of inner a number of. i think we have an opportunity to get something done. the last thing, some people say gun control doesn't work. my response is, how do we know? we haven't tried it. in this country all we've got our background check system that does need a lot of fixing. better definition of the danger, more records in the system, more checks going forward. that's basically all we've got. we have the assault weapon ban that expired. we've got the definition of prohibited purchasers and with the requirement that federally licensed dealers to a background check. that's all we do in this country. that's not really trying can control. that's the first step towards it and we haven't taken any other steps. in other countries it has been successful. there are things we can do that this country can do.
he's the one who put jim and sarah brady on the platform at the convention. it will be an issue in some races, controversial in some races but when i see polls, 95% american people support an expanded background checks system and couldn't 85% of gun owners and 75% of inner a number of. i think we have an opportunity to get something done. the last thing, some people say gun control doesn't work. my response is, how do we know? we haven't tried it. in this country all we've got our background...
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i thought it was going to be another jim bun any -- they get along well. he's trying to be a team player. i think he's graduately becoming more acceptable. and cruise is helping him get there. i would pick walker. >> let me ask you, chuck. our time is up. you think he can win the nomination. do you think that republicans, donors, voters, everybody, could look at paul and say, he can win the white house? >> i don't know. i think that's, you know, paul supporters will tell you hillary clinton can run to the left on foreign policy. on some issues he can overperform with the youth vote. but i'll tell you, i think there's obviously ways you picture how the democrats will exploit. i think that's his biggest leap. how does he get the conventional donor. i think here is what is interesting about him. he's spending a lot of time according to these people. he's trying to answer skepticism. i guess that's why i don't rule him out at all. >> one more dark horse. i think we underestimate mike a little bit. he's of all the governors we don't talk about. i can picture hi
i thought it was going to be another jim bun any -- they get along well. he's trying to be a team player. i think he's graduately becoming more acceptable. and cruise is helping him get there. i would pick walker. >> let me ask you, chuck. our time is up. you think he can win the nomination. do you think that republicans, donors, voters, everybody, could look at paul and say, he can win the white house? >> i don't know. i think that's, you know, paul supporters will tell you hillary...
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critic against the resolution, and he says in this tweet that just cannot -- came out rich, theiew from jim senator from idaho -- he has linked to the youtube video of his comments earlier. let's hear from brady in dermott, arkansas. good evening. caller: can you hear me? >> we sure can. i would like to tell my congressman to vote no. they want to spend all this , tens of millions of dollars. you can keep on counting. you can count to 1000 by 10 and put millions on the end of it. >> brady, thanks for your call. go ahead, i didn't mean to cut you off. caller: i'm not done. them what they would think the people in syria would want. they just got gassed. do you think they want bombs dropping in on top of them after that? i wouldn't think so. gas -- someone bombing knee on top of the gas. let's hear from randy in alabama. caller: thank you. i think we should vote no on this. maybe americans need to take a vote. we do not need to be in war with syria or russia. tother thing when it comes john kerry, i do not think president obama should have appointed him. i do not think he is qualified. him, we
critic against the resolution, and he says in this tweet that just cannot -- came out rich, theiew from jim senator from idaho -- he has linked to the youtube video of his comments earlier. let's hear from brady in dermott, arkansas. good evening. caller: can you hear me? >> we sure can. i would like to tell my congressman to vote no. they want to spend all this , tens of millions of dollars. you can keep on counting. you can count to 1000 by 10 and put millions on the end of it. >>...
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jim is a person of longstanding and deep experience and integrity. he and i share identical views on the role of intelligence and the importance of giving current and future generations of professionals the support they need and that they deserve. it would be the greatest honor of my professional life to lead the women and men of the cia, the agency where i started my career for a quarter century. a 24-year-old, i arrived at langley in 1980 at langley, a gs9 trainee, determined to do my part. when i joined the cia, world events were unsettled. our embassy in tehran had been overrun the year before and 52 americans were still being held hostage by government in iran. the soviet invasion of afghanistan was less than a year old, and in the next decade we witnessed the crumbling of the soviet union. nuclear proliferation and the spread of weapons of mass destruction were a constant concern, and u.s. officials were working hard around the globe try to prevent regional tensions and animosities from turning into a full-scale war. and ominously, the united s
jim is a person of longstanding and deep experience and integrity. he and i share identical views on the role of intelligence and the importance of giving current and future generations of professionals the support they need and that they deserve. it would be the greatest honor of my professional life to lead the women and men of the cia, the agency where i started my career for a quarter century. a 24-year-old, i arrived at langley in 1980 at langley, a gs9 trainee, determined to do my part....
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security and who has written extensively on secret nuclear weapons programs around the world, ambassador jim jeffreys, distinguished visiting fellow at the washington institute where he is focused on iran's effort to expand its i said nuance in -- influence in the region, and dr. ray takea, a former senior adviser on iran at the state d.. we'll look forward to your testimony and thoughts on the status of iran policy. let me restate concerns that i have expressed publicly and will express again for the record. in my view, the sanctions have worked to bring us to this pivotal point, and the fundamental question is now whether the iranians are ready to actually conclude an agreement with the international community, whether they are prepared to turn rhetoric into action. in the leadup to last week's u.n. general assembly meeting, i was cautiously hopeful about what we would hear. but in my personal view, the new face of iran looked and sounded very much like the old face. with a softer tone and a smoother edge. although iran's messenger may have changed in the last election, the message seems t
security and who has written extensively on secret nuclear weapons programs around the world, ambassador jim jeffreys, distinguished visiting fellow at the washington institute where he is focused on iran's effort to expand its i said nuance in -- influence in the region, and dr. ray takea, a former senior adviser on iran at the state d.. we'll look forward to your testimony and thoughts on the status of iran policy. let me restate concerns that i have expressed publicly and will express again...
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it merles calls for repealing the jim in atory clauses in federal law that allow as a condition of employment forcing workers to join a union or forcing workers to pay union deuce. in -- to pay union dues. here's what that would maintain for middle-class folks. you want to join a union, you request. if you don't want to join a union, you don't have to. that's t that's all this is about. this is just common sense. it is basic fairness. according to one survey, about 80% of unionized workers agree that employees should be able to decide whether or not joining a union is for them. but this amendment isn't just about ending institutional discrimination against workers. it's also about job creation, economic growth, and making america more competitive in the 21st century. consider the fact that manufacturing imhoiment is one-third higher in states with right-to-work laws or that according to a recent study, states with right-to-work saw improvements in real personal income andage of annual employment compared to what they would have seen without such laws. or that many of our nation's labor laws w
it merles calls for repealing the jim in atory clauses in federal law that allow as a condition of employment forcing workers to join a union or forcing workers to pay union deuce. in -- to pay union dues. here's what that would maintain for middle-class folks. you want to join a union, you request. if you don't want to join a union, you don't have to. that's t that's all this is about. this is just common sense. it is basic fairness. according to one survey, about 80% of unionized workers...
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commerce been joe barton, jim bryan stunt, -- congressman louie gohmert, congressman randy hultgren, congressman steve king of iowa. congressman doug lamborn, congress and james lankford, congressman ted poe. congress and ted walberg, and commerce and jeff duncan, among others. we want to present to you real people who have been affected by the decisions by the iressa, and who knows who else, to attack the liberties of the american people. diane? >> hello. i'm presenting lawrence county tea party. we filed 4501 c4 status in june of 2010. we heard nothing for over two years. writing for the election, we received medication from the iressa requesting linking amounts of information. -- we received lengthy amounts of information requesting information. we comply as best we could. they wanted more information. we sent more things in. that ended march 5. we still have not deceived any word from the irs. almost three years later, we are still in the dark esther -- as to whether we are being approved for status. we live in a free republic. at least i thought we did. when you think of obamaca
commerce been joe barton, jim bryan stunt, -- congressman louie gohmert, congressman randy hultgren, congressman steve king of iowa. congressman doug lamborn, congress and james lankford, congressman ted poe. congress and ted walberg, and commerce and jeff duncan, among others. we want to present to you real people who have been affected by the decisions by the iressa, and who knows who else, to attack the liberties of the american people. diane? >> hello. i'm presenting lawrence county...
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and i had a temporary assignment for the health committee to work on that bell and jim -- on of that bill. i'm four for three big reason. one is a lot of people didn't have insurance in this country. and if you don't have health insurance, it really affect your life, it really affects they care you get when you get sick, and it actually can make a difference between getting well and not getting well. it even makes a difference in some extreme cases between whether you live or whether you die. so getting people, more people of health insurance i felt was a really, really good goal come and a really good achievement. the second thing is that the insurance marketplace wasn't all that fair. as i said earlier, if you work for a big company come you got it pretty be great because the big compass ca could negotiate e crazy. if you're in a little company, forget it but you were paying top dollar on your own and you're stuck. plus, they politics into the policy that said things like okay, now you're sick, so by the way, there's a gap and you're not going to win a going to cover you passed the
and i had a temporary assignment for the health committee to work on that bell and jim -- on of that bill. i'm four for three big reason. one is a lot of people didn't have insurance in this country. and if you don't have health insurance, it really affect your life, it really affects they care you get when you get sick, and it actually can make a difference between getting well and not getting well. it even makes a difference in some extreme cases between whether you live or whether you die....
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ambassador jim jeffrey distinguished visiting fellow where he's focused on iran's effort to expand the influence in the region. and dr. ray senior fellow at the counsel and foreign relations in a former senior adviser on iran of the state department. we look forward to all of your testimony and thoughts on the status of the future of u.s./iran policy. before we hear our panel is. let me restate concerns i have expressed publicly and again for the record. in my view, the sanctions have worked to bring us to this pivotal point and the fundamental question is whether the iranians iranians iranians are ready to actually conclude an agreement with the international community. whether they are prepared to turn rhetoric in to action. in the leadup to last week's general assembly meeting i was cautiously hopeful about what we would hear, but in my personal view the new face of iran looked and sounded very much like the old face. with a softer tone, and a smoother edge. although iran's mess -- it the ease age seems to have remained the same. the questions are these. should we be cautiously hope
ambassador jim jeffrey distinguished visiting fellow where he's focused on iran's effort to expand the influence in the region. and dr. ray senior fellow at the counsel and foreign relations in a former senior adviser on iran of the state department. we look forward to all of your testimony and thoughts on the status of the future of u.s./iran policy. before we hear our panel is. let me restate concerns i have expressed publicly and again for the record. in my view, the sanctions have worked to...